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CLUSTER EDITOR-LATEX-COMPILING · 27 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2022-04-29

LaTeX and technical document editors

This cluster comprises LaTeX and technical document editing tools, spanning desktop, mobile, terminal, and AI-assisted environments, often with integrated PDF preview or compilation. Entries appeared sporadically from March 2017 through July 2026, with a thin but steady trickle and no month exceeding two entries, indicating a low-intensity, long-tail development pattern. openleaf leads on activity with 8 stars, while local-latex-workbench and LyX each have zero stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

MAR 2017: 1SEP 2017: 1DEC 2019: 1APR 2022: 1FEB 2023: 2MAY 2023: 1AUG 2023: 1DEC 2023: 1MAY 2026: 1JUN 2026: 1JUL 2026: 2AUG 2026: 2SEP 2026: 8OCT 2026: 4
MAR 2017OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 hand-coded · 6 unlabelled

Operator · 6 open source · 1 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 7 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 21TeXworks0★8 mostaleliveopen sourceTeXworks is a free, open-source editor for LaTeX documents that includes an integrated PDF viewer and automates the TeX typesetting workflow.
  2. 22writetex0★9 mostaleliveopen sourceLaTeX editing tool that integrates with Inkscape to create and modify equations.
  3. 23elements-latex0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceCross-platform desktop editor for writing and compiling LaTeX documents through a graphical interface.
  4. 24jupyter_latex_envs0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceJupyter notebook extension that adds support for LaTeX environments within markdown cells.
  5. 25Ipe0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceA drawing editor that creates PDF figures for LaTeX documents and multipage presentations, with extensible tools.
  6. 26Kile0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceKile is a graphical editor for LaTeX documents that provides compilation, preview, and project management features.
  7. 27TeXit0★unknownliveEditor that generates LaTeX documents from prompts with a live preview for writing complex technical documents.

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